Online embodied energy and carbon training course

Objectives: This course is designed to focus on the most important parts of embodied energy and carbon assessment. It will help you develop the knowledge and skills required to produce highly robust, reliable and efficient studies.

We have an instant access online embodied energy and carbon training course.

Delivered online, be trained from your office or home environment - it also means no travel or accommodation costs

On course completion a proof of training certificate

You can pay onlinewith a credit or debit card, or by bank transfer or cheque

Dates:This course is instant access and can be taken at any time.

Format: Three 90 min (to 2 hrs) recordings. There are also short optional exercises in between the classes and a final optional multi choice test. This course is equivalent to 1 day of Continued Professional Development (CPD) training.

Your trainer: You will be trained by Dr Craig Jones who is an experienced trainer. Craig has presented to audiences around the world, including at MIT, and has appeared in publications such as the Guardian, The Times, BBC Online, The Huffington Post, Bloomberg and more. Read more about Craig on his biography.

Level:A basic knowledge of embodied energy and carbon is an advantage. This course will develop your technical embodied energy and carbon skills. If you are wondering if the level is right for you please send us an email at info@CircularEcology.com and we will happily advise.

Influence of methodological choices: The choice of method has a profound influence on results. We will provide examples to show how your choice of method influences the results.

Emissions factors and data: This is an areas where we see many mistakes being made. We will provide an overview of selecting appropriate emissions factors for materials, fuels, electricity and transport. We will also cover the calorific values of fuels (Net calorific value and gross calorific value), which if you get wrong could introduce an 11% error into your results.

Method for recycling: This is a key area of embodied energy and carbon assessment. We will cover the main methods for recycling and will show you just how much this influences results. We will also discuss how your choice of recycling method influences real world decisions of policy makers, designers and practitioners.

Biogenic carbon (carbon sequestration): This is another key area of embodied energy and carbon assessment. We will introduce carbon sequestration and provide an overview of how you can calculate carbon sequestration for timber products (the same approach applies to other natural materials). We will then show you how this influences results and discuss the importance of the end of life stage.

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Testimonials

Here are a few testimonials from our courses:

"For me it was perfect to see the video and do the test when I have time, so I really like this way of doing a course" - Bergman, Norway

"Thank you for an excellent review of the issues for carbon analysis" - Brad, USA

"Thank you very much again for the course. It was very rewarding for me." - Marta, Slovakia

“Very useful intro - helped us realise that LCA offers some insights for us, but that actually we need to, for our purposes, learn how to model impacts around individual needs/behaviours and not only around one object's impacts.” Janet, UK